08-11-2012, 11:48 AM
I'm not a guitar player; I am a retired electronics technician. So my viewpoint on this matter comes from the latter discipline, not the former. And that has given me the following idea: I haven't considered the practical implementation of this idea, it is only a conceptual one.
You have three transducers whose outputs you wish to select, process and combine in various ways and at your command. The multiplicity of all those functions, if integrated into a guitar body, will be difficult to implement on account of the restricted space available. That, in turn, strongly suggests a limitation on the range of variables that are available. Those factors suggest a unit with electronic processing inside it: a unit which is external to the guitar but connected to the unit by a cable - although I can see that that idea does remove the ability to make rapid and convenient changes to the pick-up arrangements that you would have if the controls, switches, etc., were located in the guitar body proper.
Such an external unit can be designed to process the tonal range, phasing, filtering, volume level, etc. of each pick-up separately. The outputs from each such processing 'block' can then be combined in a mixer, with a final 'level out' control. On account of the external nature of that unit, it can be as big or small, complex or simple as budget and ideas enable. With a three pick-up guitar, a 6-way plug / socket and screened cable will be required: miniature cable and plugs / sockets spring to mind.
I haven't specifically researched the availability of parts nor circuits for all that: it is merely the nucleus of an idea that may be worth investigating further.
Al.
You have three transducers whose outputs you wish to select, process and combine in various ways and at your command. The multiplicity of all those functions, if integrated into a guitar body, will be difficult to implement on account of the restricted space available. That, in turn, strongly suggests a limitation on the range of variables that are available. Those factors suggest a unit with electronic processing inside it: a unit which is external to the guitar but connected to the unit by a cable - although I can see that that idea does remove the ability to make rapid and convenient changes to the pick-up arrangements that you would have if the controls, switches, etc., were located in the guitar body proper.
Such an external unit can be designed to process the tonal range, phasing, filtering, volume level, etc. of each pick-up separately. The outputs from each such processing 'block' can then be combined in a mixer, with a final 'level out' control. On account of the external nature of that unit, it can be as big or small, complex or simple as budget and ideas enable. With a three pick-up guitar, a 6-way plug / socket and screened cable will be required: miniature cable and plugs / sockets spring to mind.
I haven't specifically researched the availability of parts nor circuits for all that: it is merely the nucleus of an idea that may be worth investigating further.
Al.
